Marsh v. . City of Brooklyn’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1918 · most notably Heckman v. United States (1912), Chapman v. Brewer (1885)
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the claim or lien purports to affect real estate, and appears on its face to be valid, when the defect in it can be made to appear only by extrinsic evidence, which will not necessarily appear in a proceeding by the claimant thereof to enforce the lien, there is a case presented for invoking the aid of a court of equity, and to remove the lien which is a cloud upon the title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lamb v. Farrell
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.